Sunfighter
℗ 1971 Grunt Records FTR 1002
This is something of a family album, co-credited to Paul Kantner and his wife Grace Slick and featuring on its cover a photograph of their infant daughter, China. It also features the family of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, and other current members of Jefferson Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. Its style of loosely arranged acid rock music and radical left political lyrics is similar to such recent albums as the Kantner/Starship Blows Against the Empire (December 1970) and The Airplane's Bark (August 1971), which were made by most of the same players. But Kantner and Slick's usual stridency is not counterbalanced by substance as much as on earlier efforts, perhaps because they were making too many albums too quickly to keep up the quality of their songwriting. Still, anyone who enjoys the sweet-and-sour unison singing of X's John Doe and Exene Cervenka should listen to Sunfighter to see where they got it from. — William Ruhlmann
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- 1. Silver Spoon [05:42]
- 2. Diana, Pt. 1 [00:52]
- 3. Sunfighter [03:55]
- 4. Titanic [02:33]
- 5. Look at the Wood [02:11]
- 6. When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves [05:02]
- 7. Million [04:06]
- 8. China [03:20]
- 9. Earth Mother [03:20]
- 10. Diana, Pt. 2 [01:03]
- 11. Universal Copernican Mumbles [02:04]
- 12. Holding Together [07:41]
Участие в альбоме:
- Paul Kantner: vocals, rhythm guitar
- Grace Slick: vocals, piano
- Jack Casady: bass (1, 8)
- Craig Chaquico: lead guitar (9)
- Joey Covington: drums (1, 3, 8, 12)
- Papa John Creach: electric violin (1, 9)
- David Crosby: vocals (5, 6, 10), tambourine (5)
- Spencer Dryden: drums (9)
- The Edwin Hawkins Singers: vocals (3)
- Jerry Garcia: guitar (6, 7, 12)
- Pat Gleeson: moog (11), piano (11)
- Jorma Kaukonen: lead guitar (5)
- Peter Kaukonen: guitar (3), mandolin (6)
- Bill Laudner: vocals (7)
- Graham Nash: arp (5), vocals (6, 10)
- Phill Sawyer: sound effects (4)
- Steven Schuster: flute (1, 3), saxophone (3, 8), horn arrangements (3, 8)
- Shelley Silverman: drums (6)
- The Tower of Power: horns (3, 8)
- Jack Traylor: guitar (9), vocals (9)
- John Vierra: synthesizer (11), keyboards (11)
- Chris Wing: drums (8)